Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. branch for the upcoming Godot 3.2.4. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Lightmap Baking Bug Data 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders 59

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Baking Render Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ). or earlier 3.4.x

Render 52

Render Bug Collision Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Baking Render Collision Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh 54

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

After 4 months of development it's time to aim for the 3.2.4 Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ).

Render 52

Render Bug Build Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render 52

Render Build Bug Collision 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The upcoming Godot 3.5 back in 2020!

Render 52

Render Shaders Console Culling 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render 52

Render Build Bug Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. This feature was originally developed for Godot 4.0 both small and large.

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Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1 ! was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. Use baked lightmaps instead. Documentation.

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Feature Render Editing Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 It's also very easy to use.

Render 52

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). RC 2 and RC 3.

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). RC 1 and RC 2.

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52